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浮躁

fú zào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

浮躁 (fú zào) means "fickle and impatient; restless; giddy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 浮躁 means

1. fickle and impatient
2. restless
3. giddy
4. scatterbrained

The characters in 浮躁

• 浮fúto float; superficial; floating
• 躁zàoimpatient; hot-tempered

Sounds the same

Read fú zào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 浮燥variant of 浮躁

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